Discovering patterns of missing data in survey databases: An application of rough sets

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 2, 2009, Pages 6256-6260

  Wang, Hai ^a   Wang, Shouhong ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Knowledge discovery; Missing values; Rough sets; Rule induction; Survey

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ROUGH SET THEORY; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

DATA MINERS; DATA SET; MISSING DATA; MISSING VALUES; REAL-WORLD; ROUGH-SET RULE INDUCTION; RULE INDUCTION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 58349111842     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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